Now a regular on the Milan Fashion Week schedule, Saul Nash returned for a third season to present his FW26 collection. Perhaps a nod to his time spent on Italian soil, the British-Caribbean designer dissected the tradition of Venetian Masquerade, translating notions of concealment, performance and expression into the art of modern dressing.

As a London native, Nash is well versed in toeing the line between sportswear and tailoring, perfecting co-ords of tracksuits and suiting in equal measure. Using both as a way to articulate the different sides of one’s self, “These are clothes that can act as a form of masquerade in your own life; a medium to embody who you want to be,” said the designer. Technical tracksuits were printed with the silhouette of a suit, while suit jackets were designed with built-in hoods and detachable sleeves, both working as iterations of Nash’s focus on the way garments can obscure reality.

Compression tops were adorned with the motif of a body, crafted with a funnel neck that could easily lead the wearer to be mistaken for someone else, while denim was lasered with a barely-there chiselled physique in a nod to ancient statues of the male form. In a playful exploration of function and form, jumspuits were crafted from merino stretch wool, blazers appeared in fuzzy mohair, alpaca wool cardigans buttoned asymmetrically to expose nipples, and military-inspired drill jackets were cut with transformable collars.